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Finalist
Dion N. Farquhar
What Not to Write About
I.
relishing every Palm-Piloted
minute of whirling dervish speed-up,
apoplexy over optimism,
the horror of global bloodbath,
inheriting damaged parents,
the centrality of the clitoris,
unacknowledged privilege,
flakes, slackers, and whiners,
how truly fucked everyone is.
II.
Bernadette’s brother who OD’d on heroin,
Marty’s brother who’s homeless,
Debbie’s sister’s resentment,
Steven and Susan’s two
decades of alienation, Tom’s brother,
Bob, who shot himself and missed.
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_ Table of Contents
_ Contest Winners and Finalists
_ Allison Joseph
_ Maureen Tolman Flannery
_ Carissa DiGiovanni
_ Dion N. Farquhar
_ Willa Granger
_ Sandra Soli
_ Gerald R. Wheeler
_ Poetry
_ Michele Battiste
_ Radames Ortiz
_ Brady Rhoades
_ Jennifer Weathers
_ Helen Wickes
_ Fiction
_ Allen Gee
_ Michelle Panik O'Neill
_ Creative Nonfiction
_ Susana Chavez-Silverman
_ Susana Chavez-Silverman
_ Liz Dolan
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